Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pyramid with Circumscribed Prisms
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pyramid with Circumscribed Prisms
- Description
- This wooden model shows a triangular pyramid with three small triangular prisms emerging from one side. These form, together with the pyramid itself, three stacked triangular prisms. A paper tag on the model reads: 236.
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George Wentworth, in his textbook Plane and Solid Geometry
- Compare MA.304723.179, MA.304723.589 and MA.304723.662.
- Reference:
- George Wentworth with David E. Smith,, Plane and Solid Geometry, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1906, p. 342.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- wood, balsa (overall material)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.2 cm x 9 cm x 7.6 cm; 4 1/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.589
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.589
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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